two days ago, and I enjoyed reading both Keith Kohlman’s “Trains and tractors” and your EDITORS NOTEBOOK justification for running “industry studies” articles in RMC for many years.
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Trains and tractors
I am writing with regards to the arti- cle “Trains and tractors: The J.I. Case plant in Racine, Wisconsin” by Keith Kohlmann in the February RMC. On the bottom of page 79, at the very end of the article, it reads that Port of Antwerp (my home town) is lying in the country of the Netherlands. May I remind you that the Port of Antwerp (which we are very proud of) is in the country of Belgium (the Flemish part of the country) and certainly not in the country of the Netherlands. There is a huge difference between these two countries and their culture.
If you mean “exporting” to the Port of Antwerp and to the Port of Rotter- dam in the Netherlands, then I could agree with you. However, the way it is written, people in our country could misinterpret it.
Don’t mix these countries up in the future, please.
M.L. DE BRUYNLAAKDAL Antwerp, Belgium
The February, 2012, RMC arrived
I have been a subscriber to RMC for at least twenty years and, as both a professional geographer and lecturer in industrial history, have found all such articles run during my subscrip- tion period to be of great interest. On the subject of North American supremacy in the field of agricultural mechanization, touched upon in both Keith’s article and the Front of the Layout series a few years ago which plotted the development of agricultural mechanization, two personal obser- vances may interest your readers. As a small boy during the last years of the Second World War I still vividly recall seeing my first combine har- vestors, painted gray and no doubt- from Massey Harris or perhaps Inter- national Harvestor. They were crewed by Italian prisoners of war guarded by members of the Army and were clear- ing a large wheat field quite close to my then home.
I had previously been used to seeing local fields cut by both horse-drawn and tractor-hauled reapers and binders. Interestingly, there is still one farm close to my present home where such machinery is still used to harvest a limited crop of long-stemmed wheat, grown solely for thatching straw. There was one error in Kohlman’s splendid article. In his last sentence he mentions export tractors destined for mainland Europe leaving the port of New York for Antwerp, The Nether- lands. Antwerp (Antwerp or Anvers in the two official languages of its home country), is in fact not in Dutch territory, but is Belgium’s import-ex- port hub.
I look forward to more occasional “in- dustrial studies” articles within the pages of RMC.
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